Internal Kubernetes Platform Team Lead
Internal Kubernetes Platform Team Lead
Kraków, PL, 30-302
Type of contract: B2B contract
Salary range: 135 - 170 PLN/H
What will you do?
Join a global Platform Engineering team responsible for delivering and maintaining an enterprise Kubernetes platform for internal customers worldwide. You will lead a local team in Poland, drive platform automation and lifecycle management, improve reliability and performance, and support the evolution from traditional DevOps practices to a mature Platform Engineering model within a large international banking environment.
Your tasks
- Provide end-to-end platform engineering and lifecycle management for the Internal Kubernetes Platform
- Build automation, APIs and platform operations solutions to manage infrastructure and service lifecycle
- Improve reliability, quality and efficiency of platform and service upgrades
- Monitor, measure and optimize system performance, availability and capacity
- Create dashboards and visualizations to increase platform transparency
- Develop self-healing solutions and automate operational processes
- Support software development teams with platform engineering, architecture and operational guidance
- Implement infrastructure changes during maintenance windows when required
- Manage the monthly schedule and workload of the local engineering team
- Collaborate with the Global Engineering Team Lead on planning and delivery activities
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Implement infrastructure changes during maintenance windows, including approximately two weekends per month
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with Linux, containers and Kubernetes in production environments
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes ecosystem components such as Istio, Cilium and CSI solutions
- Experience in platform engineering, infrastructure automation and lifecycle management
- Proficiency in Bash and programming with Python or Golang
- Experience with Jenkins, Ansible and infrastructure orchestration tools
- Experience with observability platforms such as Splunk and Datadog
- Experience working with GitHub and software development lifecycle processes
- Knowledge of infrastructure operations and enterprise platform management
- ITIL awareness
- Proactive problem-solving and continuous improvement mindset
- Fluent English communication skills
- Openness to work hybrid from our client's office (Kraków) 6 days a month
- Availability to participate in planned maintenance activities outside standard business hours, including approximately two weekends per month
Nice to have
- Experience working in a large-scale enterprise banking environment
- Experience supporting multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms
- Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams
- Knowledge of Private Cloud platforms